you’re right! hmm, I wonder how many pixel art games there are that have eventually evolved into a different form like 2.5D or even 3D
There were a lot, back when 3D graphics became a thing in general, because companies felt like they’d get left behind, if they didn’t somehow make their games 3D.
But yeah, these days, I don’t think this happens much. 2D rarely translates well into 3D, because the whole gameplay works differently. And while 2.5D doesn’t have the same problem, it’s also a lot of effort for what’s essentially just a different art style.
I don’t think I even remember what “AAA” games I bought last year. Uh… Baldur’s Gate III and Train Sim World 5. That’s about that.
Thing is, I didn’t play much of those either! I have an absolutely gigantic backlog! And in December I got somehow addicted to Skyrim again. It never ends
Best and awesomest and most profound game experience I had last year was Chants of Sennaar, and even that technically came out in 2023.
I don’t think those games AAA. Baldur’s Gate 3 is in the border between being AA and AAA, but Train Sim World can’t have that much of a development cost, no?
Well, I suppose they’re less “AAA” and more “Games With Actual Noticeable Budget”. Simulators aren’t exactly mainstream these days, yes.
Your uh… $1000 gaming PC? Isn’t that pretty much all it can play? (assuming the game is released today)
you can build decent enough pc in a 1000$ on ryzen 7700 and 64gb ram and intel a770 16gb in that budget
Ryzen 7700 and 64 GB of ram is crazy overkill for gaming. Downgrade those and get a used RTX 3080 for around $400 and you’ll have a good modern gaming pc
Try 6000$ machine… no joke.
everyone reading that probably had one in mind. i bet ill hit 75% of them with the balatro/stardew/terraria combo, though if yours is far more obscure, by all means enlighten me so i can buy it and let it sit in my backlog for years because of my own game addictions.
I’ve been having a lot of fun with Vagante recently
Dead cells, factorio
I’m always a huge fan of Deep Rock Galactic, Moonring, Rimworld
Gelatine and I wanna maker are cool obscure games
Celeste is also fun, but less obscure
Undertale
Noita, Streets of Rogue, and Dwarf Fortress are some of favorite games.
I haven’t played it, but Animal Well looks great.
It’s not a pixel game, but because it has Sims 1 graphics, I think Project Zomboid should get a special mention.
Also, zomboid used to be a pixel game
Have your heard of our Lord and Savior… balatro?
oh you mean the “The wheel of fortune is fucking rigged” simulator? Why yes. Yes I have.
Compensate by running an electron app alongside it.
Yep. Hexcells Infinite hasn’t overtaxed my RTX 3080 yet. That may have been a slight waste of money.
Me with a:
Ryzen 5 5800x, RTX 4060 TI, and 32GB RAM.
Plays: Factorio and Minecraft 😂
Lol that’s almost exactly my specs except I have 46gb ram
I play a lot of dungeon crawl stone soup
That’s like minimal speks for properly modded Minecraft
Now download optimization mods to offset the overhead of the other mods.
Terraria
every AAA game in recent years sucks and most of them are scrapped before they’re finished
Remarkable how none of that is true.
Elden ring, Baldurs Gate 3, Helldivers 2, Wukong, Marvel Rivals… List goes on, and that’s just 2024. You .ight not like some genders, and that’s fine, but there are good AAAs.
Also, with the number of AAAs reaching the shelves, what do you mean “most are scrapped”? Sure some games get cancelled from time to time, but saying that’s most of them is just fantasy…
Helldivers 2 has Sony fuckery involved. I was considering getting it when I upgraded my machine, but not after the login nonsense.
2 of those games are from 2022 and 2023
Thanks for the corrections, looks like I got in late on BG3 and if we’re nitpicking about Shadow of the Erd Tree being a DLC, we need to talk about horse armour.
In any case, the guy I was replying to was crying about no good AAA games in the last few years, so it still applies, but going by overall reviews you can just as easily sub in stuff like Metaphor ReFantazio or Tekken or Like a Dragon and I’m sure there’s others in genres I don’t care about
You could argue that Shadow of the erd tree puts elden ring in 2024 because it had so much content.
Me with me $3000 AI laptop. Copilot shit on Windows Console programs on LinuxConsider this, a 3D indie pixel-art game (Ultrakill)
Atlyss, Pseudoregalia
Minecraft-alikes?
Not every pixel-art game or voxel game is a Minecraft-alike. For example Hytale is fundamentally different.
I love my 3080 running LA noire.
Pixelated grass is always greener
this failing isn’t on you though. AAA games is not what it used to be, I feel like between 2008 to 2014 game companies have all progressed and transitioned into something they didn’t use to be.
my $4k gaming PC at this point is a glorified FFXIV machine although, I do plan to play other things soon.
I mostly play indie games, but I sometimes play AAA games (Ghost of Tsushima right now) and I am glad that I have my rig that can get 90 fps @ 4k (with fsr).
It’s not because you don’t use it every single time that you play a game that it is a waste of money.
This exactly. I bought a custom build specifically for Elden Ring. After blowing that out of the water, my next most played game that year was Stardew iirc. It’s about having power for when you need it rather than always using it to feel like it has value
I feel like the last few years at least have had like one worthy game per year, which for someone with a lot of work to do and now a family, is plenty. I’ve yet to finish Elden Ring and Baldur’s Gate III, and while I completed Cyberpunk, I never got around to the DLC.
I do certainly feel like between 2016 and 2021 or so, we barely got any good games. The biggest release of 2020 took a year or 2 to be decent and even then never lived up to its’ hype because what was promised was simply too much. 2021 the biggest release was Forza Horizon 5 which I loved, but a lot of gamers don’t really care for.
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2016 we got Blood and Wine for Witcher 3 and Fallout 4 (which is a good game, just not a good Fallout game). Oh and we got Doom.
2017 wasn’t that great for AAA, except for Nintendo. But we still got great games like Breath of the wild, Prey, Nier Automata, Hellblade, Hollow Knight, Undertale to name a few.
2018 we got Red Dead Redemption 2, Monster Hunter World, God of War.
2019 we got Death Stranding, Divinity Original Sin 2, Sekiro, Resident Evil 2
2020 we got Final Fantasy 7 Remake, The last of us 2, Hades
2021 is kind of a dud because of covid.
So I’m terms of AAA only 2017 and 2021 can really be considered duds. But indies released some absolute bangers between 2016-2021. For example Disco Elysium, among us, outer wilds, Stardew valley, inscryption etc.
